Yah. It's always so funny when the folks who built it wind up with something that's now worse than the original.
I'm not saying that the Avast devs are as bad as Redmond (no-one can be!), but there are ways to gently persuade us to upgrade. Even Adobe isn't this anal!
One of the ways to persuade [especially me] to
downgrade is to tell my copy to put up a big BROKEN sign, and THE NEW VERSION WILL FIX IT!!!!
it will NOT change any functionality (add or remove any features)
Since I have not noticed any faults--I was wondering where the definitions update notifications were, but .2018 remembered it had to put them up, so all's well--I can't quite see the problem from Avast's Point of View.
It's when the app falls over that I start to look for upgrades. OK, v7 was only a bit aged... We all make mistakes.
Gordon.